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JERSEY WAIST.

N0. 339,406. Patented Apr. 6, 1886.

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UNITED STATES DAVID F. HALSTED, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGXOR TO HIMSELF AND GILBERT H. FINGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,406, dated April 6, 1886.

Application filed December 19, 1885. Serial No. 186,196. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: placed, so that the front of the waist can be Be it known that 1, DAVID F. HALSTED, of kept clean.

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State I am aware that a childs blouse having the of New York, have invented certain new and usual row of buttons and button'holes alonguseful ImprovementsinLadiesJersey-Waists, side its meeting edges has been provided with of which the following is afull, clear, and exact a detachable front having rows of hooks on description. its vertical edges that engage parallel rows of Reference is to be had to the accompanying eyes at opposite sides of the meeting edges of drawings, forming part of this specification, in the blouse; also, that knit Cardigan jackets are to which similar letters of reference indicate cornot new, and I do not claim the same as of my responding parts in both the figures. invention; but I am not aware that a jersey Figure 1 is a front elevation of a ladys jerhas ever been formed with its adjacent edges soy-waist to which my improvement has been separated by and detachably connected to the applied, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is side edges of a piece of woven fabric. The

15 a cross-section of a part of the same, taken jersey, as is well known, is a very elastic and 5 5 through the line a: :0, Fig. 1. close-fitting garment, and tends to contract The object of this invention is to provide when properly fitting a person, so that when ladies jersey-waists constructed in such a the front 13 is in place it is drawn evenly at manner that their fronts can be readily reits side edges to fit the contour of the wearers 2o moved, washed, and replaced. body. If knit fabric were used for the de The invention consists in the construction tachable front, it would be drawn or stretched and arrangement of parts, as will be herein laterally, which would shorten its length and after fully described and claimed. make an i1l-lilti ng garment; but such is not A represents a jersey-waist, which is made the case with awoven fabric, as the jersey ma- 25 of a knitted fabric in the ordinary manner. terial cannot stretch it, while it will adapt it- The adjacent edges of the forward part of the self to the form of the body, as before stated. waist A do not meet, and are connected by a Having thus described my invention,.whatI front, B, of woven fabric, the side edges of claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters which are secured to the side edges of the jer- Patent, is- 7 o say-waist by buttons 0, attached to the said A knitted jersey having aspace between its front B, and which button imo button-holes frontedges and a separate woven fabric front D, formed in the edges of the said waist A, or having approxinmtely the contour of the said by hooks and eyes, or by other suitable fastspace and detarhnbly connected at its side enings. The opening in the forward part of edges to the front edges of the jersey, substan- 5 the jersey can extend the whole length of the tially as set forth.

garment or for a part of the said length, as T I may be desired, the front B being made of a ID HALSTED corresponding length. With this construction, .Vitnesscs: should the woven fabric front become soiled, it JAMES T. GRAHAM,

40 can be readily detached, washed, and re- 0. Snnewick. 

